In short, it's my impression it's an engineering culture problem in large part caused by bad leadership at the types of companies where these projects could be possible.
In short, it's my impression it's an engineering culture problem in large part caused by bad leadership at the types of companies where these projects could be possible.
Disclosure: used to work there.
Their concern was the low velocity which felt insane to me because velocity was huge but in an unfocused direction. I am scared of this new world where paper CEO think truly grand visions come to life by half-assing it and playing the part only to the surface level; like I get it if that's your thing, mooning a company and exiting, it's just so hypocritical to act like you believe in the mission statement when you can't even verbalize it, let alone push it forward.
I am hopeful for a new wave of Venture Capitalism with a focus on fundamentals and truly hard problems that are not going to bring in a 3000% ROI in 2 - 3 week-long sprints.
It really depends on the perspective you're looking at the situation from. If you're concerned with better competitive advantages and the final bottom line for company X or Y, in this current market, in the short term, sure, that sounds amazing, sign me up on that moon rocket!
If your concern is a bit more hard to quantify, for example maximizing human potential, allowing individuals access to high quality technological infrastructure so that we may develop as a species and reach new heights, then you might feel like this approach is a bit short sighted.
unless the company doing this can reap exclusively those new heights, no one will be altruistic enough to make such an investment to the betterment of mankind!
This role is left up to the publicly funded institutions such as gov'ts.
Amorphous long term ideals are great but if you go broke tomorrow you aren’t doing much OSS development next month.
I'm not looking to be a shill in this thread but we might be what you're looking for, and even if it isn't, I'd love to keep in touch as my own life goals involve leveling humanity up in some capacity.
Happy to share details and answer questions if you want to shoot me an email (info is on my user page).